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Which is right?

I don't think either is right or wrong. It depends on your beliefs and what you want to happen to you. Personally I want to be creamated. It is cheaper and the thought of rotting in the ground doesn't appeal to me. (Yes, I know I won't be around when it happens)

personally I don't think it matters. But, I feel cremation is much better for the earth vs the coffin & grave liner that fills the ground, and the chemicals they have to use for embalming aren't good for the living.

Personal choice. I don't see the point in spending thousands of dollars on a box that is going into the ground to be destroyed. I opt for cremation and put my ashes in a ziploc . Use to fertilize in spring or whatever I really don't care.

I agree with the others that it's a personal choice. We had our son cremated and there were family members that didn't agree and really haven't "forgiven" us for doing that.

Hubby and I both want to be cremated (just make sure we are dead first) and then have our ashes mixed together and maybe spread across the water or something. However, we are going to be dead, so it really doesn't matter.

Actually, I want to be cremated so that when the Zombie Apocalypse happens, I won't come back as a zombie. *grin*

In our family we would never be cremated, although it is better for the earth in a lot of ways - DH's father was a Holocaust survivor. As he put it, his parents didn't get a choice as to go to the ovens or not. No way I could be cremated in light of that. Plain pine box, no embalming, let me disintegrate and I'm good.